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Archive for December, 2003



2004 tech prediction

From CNN: 10 technologies to watch in 2004

01. Home networking
Ultra-wideband: Imagine a television that can wirelessly send three different programs to separate monitors. Low-power, low-cost, and with roughly 45 times the data transmission speed of run-of-the-mill Wi-Fi, this wireless technology is finally ready to debut in the living room.
02. Supply chain
RFID: While they’ve been […]

LOTR:ROTK EE Rumours

(Via theonering.net) RotK EE Rumored “longer than 4 hours and 50 min”.
Peter Jackson said so. Ian McKellen said so. It’s gonna happen. Is it safe to assume that this will be a three disc release just for the feature movie?


The LIDL story …

This is a rant a little out of the ordinary perhaps. Far too trivial for this site but nevertheless I have some reflections that I would like to share. Not just about this chain of stores but on the acquisition of products in general. Here we go …
I’m talking about LIDL [ uk | se […]

The whacky ICQ “hackers”

“Your Icq Number Will Not Exist In New Database”. Yep. They are at it again. Not the same guys as last years maybe but using almost the exact same method. I.e. sending HTML emails that look like they originate from the ICQ server, unless you check the headers of course.
The UIN and password form […]

Common sense prevails

The RIAA is sure getting some nasty gifts in their stocking this year. It only serves them right after all. They should have seen it coming and stopped with their mafioso methods before it struck back at them.
Wired: Dutch Court Throws Out Kazaa Case
“The makers of Kazaa, the world’s most popular computer file-sharing program, […]

Movie trailers rant of the month

Just happened to catch a sneak peak at Spider-Man 2 and the The Chronicles Of Riddick the other day. Two titles among the vast collection of movies that are slated for a 2004 release. Both trailers felt deeply pointless however. Not that a trailer ever reflects the final movie but since both are sequels of […]

MPC for Winamp

If there is one thing that I hate it is when music that I want is being released in “lossy” formats that I do not want (and I thus can’t re-encode it into another lossy format).
Like MPC for example. Some audio geeks claim that MPC is the best of the lossy formats available. I have […]

Lord Of The Rings: Return Of The King

What can one say about such a masterpiece and milestone of movie history. There is little to complain about actually. The movies provides a stunning conclusion to a trilogy that accomplished everything it set out to do.
The only possible downside is that it gets a little tripping with all of its grand and heroic acts […]

Winter apparel project

It’s a wrap as they say. Secured the remaining component (heavy gore-tex gloves) today. It’s been a long, expensive and difficult road but it has been worth it. I loathe halfhearted solutions. Clothes for me are like a swiss army knife. They have to be able to answer to every call.
Now I have at last […]





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